David, Am 12.04.20 um 16:17 schrieb D.: > Frank, > > On the first point, I'd note that the books in question are mine; changing > the transaction date from MY date to the bank's date would seem to contradict > that. > > I was unaware that the matcher would match transactions that have different > amounts. That seems worrying. > > Generally speaking, if I've entered my own description (whether by manually > entering it, by a scheduled transaction, or use autofill), I prefer to use MY > description. Why else would I have done that work in the first place? > > I don't know about common practice in the EU (which I believe is your > location), but my experience in the US is that the bank's descriptions are > meaningless machine mumbo jumbo that begin with a transaction code that > precludes any meaningful grouping of transactions by description. Accepting > the bank's descriptions over my own never made any sense to me. > > David T.
See https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/set-prefs.html#prefs-online for parameters to adjust the behaviour. https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/trans-import.html, in particular https://www.gnucash.org/docs/v3/C/gnucash-help/trans-import.html#match_status has more info about the process. Frank _______________________________________________ gnucash-user mailing list [email protected] To update your subscription preferences or to unsubscribe: https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-user If you are using Nabble or Gmane, please see https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Mailing_Lists for more information. ----- Please remember to CC this list on all your replies. You can do this by using Reply-To-List or Reply-All.
